Morley Further Education College, London SE1 7HT

It’s a great time for me – choosing which subjects I’m going to study though, with cuts in funding, courses are much more expensive than they used to be. When I first retired, I could afford to attend courses every day, sometime twice a day, but the cost is now prohibitive though still excellent value.

I took some Summer Courses this year including an excellent two-day ‘Getting to know your digital camera’ at Morley. I have a Canon Compact camera and feel most ashamed that I’ve been using it entirely on Automatic when it has so many facilities you only get with an SLR. Shame on me.

I use Photoshop CC for touching up my images but the course introduced me to Lightroom – a whole new ballpark. I’ve ordered a couple of manuals from my library and will see which I prefer – pros and cons!!

It’s a real tragedy that adult education is being cut back and made more expensive, especially for unemployed and retired people. I’m sure that whatever it costs the government is money well spent, given what is saved on health and social care budgets by keeping older people active.